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There wasn't anything pretty about The Beautiful Life's premiere last night.

The CW model drama, starring Mischa Barton on the comeback trail, and featuring Ashton Kutcher in the producer's credits, was watched by just 1.5 million, per early Nielsen numbers.

The show proved especially inept with young women, who were mostly engaged at 9 p.m. by Fox's still-going-strong Glee (6.6 million).  

Overall, the season closer of America's Got Talent led Wednesday with a finale-record 15.5 million who still can't believe how good the Rolling Stones look on Susan Boyle. Jay Leno hung onto most of the crowd, with his new 10 p.m. show climbing to 13.1 million viewers. 

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Las Vegas will be seeing a new name in lights.

After weeks of grueling rehearsals, cranky judges, whiny judges, overly excited judges and unfavorable comparisons to the amateur-turned-global-phenomenon that is Susan Boyle, one lucky act walked away from America's Got Talent tonight $1 million richer and headed for a top-billed gig in Sin City.

But not before Boyle made her presence felt once again, this time in person. In her first performance for U.S. television, the unassuming-looking Scot brought the house down with her version of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses."

But, you know, this country is no slouch when it comes to cranking out our own flashes in the pan, either.

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America's Got Talent. Britain's Got Talent. Now thanks to Simon Cowell, America's got Britain's talent.

Good old SuBo herself, Susan Boyle, is scheduled to make her U.S. performance debut next week when she takes to the stage on the season finale of the Nick Cannon-hosted reality fest. (A nice and long-rumored bookend as she also appeared, briefly via satellite, in the season premiere.)

Neither NBC nor the infamous BGT runner-up, whose months-away debut album has already bested Whitney Houston's and Jay-Z's in Amazon presales, have disclosed exactly which ditty Boyle will sing come next Wednesday, though "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Memory" are both safe bets, as she performed both during her U.K. reality-show reign.

Boyle will arrive stateside tomorrow afternoon in advance of her prime-time debut.

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More finalists, yes, but it's that Nick Cannon who keeps turning in the noteworthy performances on America's Got Talent!

While last week it was a hard-to-swallow introduction, tonight it was a bit of improv that Master Cannon mastered, when he was forced to ad-lib the show's closing seconds as he talked up next week's finale.

"We've got a whole load of incredible surprise guests for you..10 finalists, that million dollars is getting closer, it's coming…Monday night, not only is it the finale, but it's the premiere of The Jay Leno Show...

"And if you guys feel like I'm talking slow, it's because Piers is standing in front of the prompter!" he revealed.

Oh, Nick, you improvisational rogue!

Anyway, guess who's going to be facing off next week against the Texas Tenors, Fab Five, Voices of Glory, Kevin Skinner and septuagenarian comedian Grandma Lee...

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Wait, that wasn't the finale? They brought out the Hoff and everything!

No, there are still a couple more weeks to this America's Got Talent thing, and five lucky acts (more on that later) were informed Wednesday that they will be moving on to the final round in Las Vegas, which airs Sept. 15.

But while elimination nights are always exciting, and Kermit and Miss Piggy also showed up to warble "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," it was host Nick Cannon, looking lankier than ever in his semifinals tuxedo, who really had to turn it on tonight.

"To me, he's one of the coolest men to ever step foot on television," he gushed as he introduced a "real American icon" to the stage...

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Believe it or not, Coney Island Chris and his fiery ass will not be headlining his own show in Vegas anytime soon.

But five of the 11 acts he performed with last night on America's Got Talent still have a shot at seeing their name in lights and collecting $1 million for their efforts.

Five more individuals and/or groups were ushered into the semifinals Thursday to complete out the fourth season's top 20, who will take the stage again over the next two weeks in hope of getting that many more voters on their side.  

So it was lights out for Chris, but not before host Nick Cannon played a nasty trick on two of the most likable acts on the show…

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Piers Morgan is a Celebrity Apprentice, Sharon Osbourne is married to the Prince of Darkness and David Hasselhoff is loved by Germans. But this dynamic trio don't quite have their collective finger on the pulse of America just yet.

"I think America's made some strange decisions with a couple of these acts," America's Got Talent's resident Brit complained as the following five made it through to the semifinals, despite the judges' unequivocal advocacy for a few that got away:

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Some crazy things went down during this week's America's Got Talent.

Well, not really, but judge Piers Morgan was kinda, sorta bummed about his favorite piano-playing, singer not making it through to the next round (sounds more like an American Idol-esque contestant, but what do we know?).

Who did make the cut? Introducing your AGT top five:

• Paradizo Dance of Brooklyn.
• Fab Five, some dancing sisters from Morgan, Utah
• Voices of Glory, a singing trio hailing from Highland, N.Y.
• Texas Tenors from—where else—Houston
• And of course the scandal-inducing Tony Hoard and his adorable dog Rory from New Castle, Ind. (Morgan's choice was booted because of this guy)

Overall, the judges were loving their final five. Were you?

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Warning: This video contains anxiety-inducing flashing lights. Just check out the look on Mariah Carey's face throughout the first half.

That said, no one is doubting the singer's impressive set of pipes, but—frighteningly jarring lighting and quick edits aside—did she actually utilize them on America's Got Talent last night?

Well, that's debatable.

Clearly appearing on the reality show as a favor to the host—her hubby, Nick Cannon—the songbird robotically rendered her new single, "Obsessed," better known as that track about Eminem. We would have expected her to belt out her best on his behalf. Instead, she seemed tentative and stiff, to say the least.

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Eccentric YouTube superstar Susan Boyle gets slightly spiffed up and, by the looks of this preview, slightly stiff as well for a Wednesday sit-down with Today's Meredith Vieira.

The Britain's Got Talent phenom, who jumps the pond for appearances on NBC news shows and America's Got Talent, responds to compliments on her new look by saying, "I brush up quite well." After her recent bouts with exhaustion, not to mention the stress of working with Simon Cowell, the show-tunes-loving singer does seem to be showing well, but what do you think?

Is this a good makeover or should Sue do another do-over? Let us know in the comments section.

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•  On The Late Show last night, Harry Potter's Hermione, Emma Watson, schools all the other starlets on how to handle (and prepare for) a wardrobe malfunction, as well as how to ace a David Letterman interview.

•  Josh Lucas actually talks about Rachel McAdams! We would squee, but jabber about their shared environmentalism made us want to hit the snooze bar.

•  The Jonas Brothers take a 24-hour break from music to try to do our jobs. Whatevs. How would they like it if we did that to them?

•  Our sympathies to Ozzy Osbourne. Don't you just hate it when your dog gets gobbled up by a coyote?

•  This hasn't happened in a while—Kelly Clarkson looks great!

•  Who's your grandma?!

•  Dear David Beckham: Thanks for sharing intimate details of your bromance with Tom Cruise. We love bromances! Love, Rise 'n' Shine

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